A python 3.6 script that downloads movie extras from youtube.
This script searches for movie extras on youtube and then uses Youtube-DL to download found videos from youtube. Downloaded videos are put into subfolders in the movie directory.
The script uses folder names as a basis of the search. it can also recognise that the folder name ends with the release year and will use it to make better searches. to improve results the script can use a tmdb api key to filter out similarly named titles. the script asumes that you are using a folder naming schemes similar to "{movie title} {movie release year}". it can handle most common delimiters and will remove all parentheses and brackets
My goal and vision of this program is to find all kind of movie extra content on youtube but for now I've only implemented trailers. The goal is also to provide options for usefull stuff like renaming schemes. editing the filtering process should also be fairly easy to mess about with. for now however I woudln't recommend changing to much in the extra configs.
it'sa a quite slow script. I've hard coded in a limit of one movie per minute so that you don't get flagged by google. so expect to run it for a day or two the first time you run it
The provided configs that I've included are well tested but they are not perfect. if you find a issue with the script finding the wrong movie entirely please let me know.
for now it'll download the video and its thumbnail, name them after the youtube video and move it to a subfolder in the movie directory
it should be dead simple to install. simply clone the repository and install the python3 modules "youtube-dl" and "google"
- youtube-dl
if you wish to download 1080p versions then you'll also need to install ffmpeg so that it can be run from the terminal. this should be easy in linux but it's a bit messier on Mac or Windows.
you'll need to add a default_config.cfg file into the program folder. there should be a "empty_default_config.cfg". simply remove the "empty_" from its name and you'll be good to go.
if you have a TMDB API key and wish to use it. open the default_config.cfg file and add it to the tmdb_api_key field. this is highly recomended since it will provide a better result! getting a tmdb api key is really simple and is completed in under 5 minutes.
You'll also need to add extra configs to the "extra_configs" folder. there should be a folder called "default_extra_configs" here you'll find fairly well tested configs that should work well, simply copy any wanted config to the "extra_config" folder. each config in the "extra_config" folder represents one extra type. one config can download multiple videos but can only download for one type of extra at a time. configs starting with "." or "_" is ignored.
the program should now be ready to use. run it with python3.5 or 3.6. the program expects to be given a movie directory or a movie library to work on. giving it a movie directory will only execute the script once on the given directory while giving it a movie library will run the script on every folder in the given library.
a few exmples on a ubuntu machine:
python3 Movie-Extra-Downloader.py -d /media/plex/Movies/Avatar (2009)
python3 Movie-Extra-Downloader.py -l /media/plex/Movies
You'll probably need to write a script yourself that calls this program since the script would be different on different systems.